Top Ten home sales put up big numbers

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TOP SELLERS: A 15,000-square-foot single-family at 15 Commonwealth Ave., above, was last year’s priciest Bay State home, selling for $12.5 million.

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TOP SELLERS: A 20-room Georgian style mansion at 333 Lee St. in Brookline, above, came in third, with a purchase price of $10.5 million.

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INVITING: A 17-room, 9,276-square-foot house on 16 acres at 281 Fairhaven Hill Road in Concord, whose living room is seen above, sold for $8.6 million.

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A Back Bay home sale that was the top deal of 2012’s first quarter hung on to be the blockbuster of the entire year.

The 15,000-square-foot, single-family home at 15 Commonwealth Ave. sold for $12.5 million — the priciest sale in Massachusetts last year.

Designed by the Boston Architectural firm Snell and Gregerson, the property was built in 1867 and was recently home to the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

Listed for $15 million and on the market for close to three years, the property — which has gone back and forth from commercial to residential use over its history — will be a private home once again to the new owners.

The following hot properties round out the rest of the top 10 sales of 2012:

• A townhome at 115 Commonwealth Ave. in Back Bay, configured as five rental units when it was on the market for 50 days, sold for $10.6 million. The property, featuring a large roof deck and three parking spaces, is going back to single-family use.

• 333 Lee St. in the Chestnut Hill section of Brookline sold for $10.5 million, off its original list price of $12.5 million. The Georgian Revival-style home is situated on three acres with 20 rooms, 10 fireplaces and pool pavilion with an indoor Olympic-size pool and spa. It was on the market for 332 days.

• 3 Louisburg St. on Beacon Hill, a 6,570-square-foot, five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath townhouse, sold for $11 million. It comes with two parking spaces at the front door.

• The West 11-B unit at the Residences at Mandarin Oriental, at 776 Boylston St. in Back Bay, traded for $10.3 million. The 6,111-square-foot condo features three bedrooms, six bathrooms and two terraces.

• Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen made even more headlines last year with the sale of their penthouse at 310 Beacon St. in the Back Bay, which sold for $9.2 million in June. The 5,311-square-foot, three-bedroom, 3.5-bath duplex took 254 days to sell after listing for $10.5 million.

• Two residences tied for sales at the $9 million mark, a 4,083-square-foot penthouse at 100 Beacon St. — which took the honors of the year’s highest price per square foot at $2,204 — and 130 Warren St., a 7,911-square-foot, five-bedroom home on a 3.7-acre spread in the country club section of Brookline.

• And two others tied at $8.6 million, including the fast-selling 281 Fairhaven Hill Road in Concord, a 9,276-square-foot, 17-room manse on 16 acres with a tennis court, in-ground pool, spa and horse paddock. The other was 153 Bayberry Way, a 9,892-square-foot, five-bedroom waterfront home in the village of Osterville on Cape Cod.